Regional Sales Director - Pleasanton OR SeattleWorkday, Inc.

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Regional Sales Director -Â Pleasanton OR Seattle

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Do you want to actually look forward to Monday mornings? You can at Workday! We embody the qualities of a great company, offer world-class products and services, listen to our employees, empower creativity and innovation, and celebrate a job well done. Itâs that simple, and has earned us the #1 ranking on 2012 & 2013's âBest Places to Workâ surveys (as voted by our own employees).Â

Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses.

Workday is hiring a Regional Sales Director in the Bay Area or in Seattle to manage a sales team.

The ideal candidate will be a proven sales leader with a track record of success and the ability to hire, develop, manage and motivate a team of sales professionals to prospect for and close new business.Â

Regional Sales Directors are on the front-line in securing deals for Workday, working with Account Executives, Legal, Revenue Recognition, Sales Operations and senior Sales Management to structure, negotiate and secure approval for deals.

Responsibilities:

To attract top talent to the organization, across all disciplines but namely individual sales contributors. To work with the Recruiting function to target active and passive candidates in top performing Enterprise Sales positions in other leading companies.

To hire and onboard individual sales contributors, including allocation of territory accounts and commensurate compensation plans.

To ensure new hires are ramped to be effective as soon as possible. This will include coaching, mentoring, field sales calls, enhancing product knowledge and leveraging the long-tenured team members.

To develop the regional plan for all vertical industries, solutions, products and geographies. Also to work with senior leaders to segment the region by solution and account size, plus channel sales as appropriate.

To work with Marketing and Inside Sales to develop new opportunities, including trade shows, speaking opportunities, interview opportunities and other lead generation events.

To develop relationships with the local large SI partners, including co-development of opportunities, joint bid activities, allocation of Business Development resources and use of local boutique implementation resources.

To ensure the smooth and effective handover of customers to the Professional Services team, with ongoing care and attention to ensure 100% reference ability of customers within the region.

To coordinate the deployment of pre-sales resources in sales activities in conjunction with the pre-sales leadership, including qualification of leads and priority setting.

To keep informed of regional variances and legislation around HR and Financial products to ensure feedback to the product teams and hence into the ongoing roadmap.

To work with Senior Management and Sales Operations to ensure the predictability and visibility of pipeline, opportunity, hiring and bookings numbers.